Journal articles

C. Castagnetti, L. Rosti and M. Töpfer. "Changes in the Gender Pay Gap over Time: The Case of West Germany", Journal for Labour Market Research, forthcoming 

M. Bonaccolto-Töpfer, C. Castagnetti and S. Pruemer. "Understanding the Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in Germany: New Evidence from a Fixed Effects Quantile Approach", Economic Modelling, 116, 2022

C. Castagnetti, L. Rosti, and M. Töpfer.  "Discriminate me – if you can! The Disappearance of the Gender Pay Gap among Public-Contest Selected Employees in Italy".  Gender, Work & Organization, 27: 1040-1076, 2020

C. Castagnetti, L. Rosti, and M. Töpfer. (2020) "The Age Pay Gap between Young and Older Employees in Italy: Perceived or Real Discrimination against the Young?", Polachek, S.W. and Tatsiramos, K. (Ed.) Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 48), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 195-221. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-912120200000048006.

C. Castagnetti, L. Rosti, and M. Töpfer. ''The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential Across Gender in Italy: a New Quantile-Based Decomposition Approach". Economics Bulletin, 39: 2533-2539, 2019.

C. Castagnetti, E. Rossi, and L.Trapani. "A two-stage estimator for heterogeneous panel models with common factors". Econometrics and Statistics, 11: 63-82, 2019. 

C. Castagnetti, and M.L. Giorgetti. "Understanding the gender wage-gap differential between the public and private sectors in Italy: A quantile approach", Economic Modelling, 78:240-261, 2019.

C. Castagnetti. "A novel approach for testing the parity relationship between CDS and credit spread", Economics Letters, 172: 115-117, 2018.

C. Castagnetti, L. Rosti, and M. Toepfer. "Overeducation and the Gender Pay Gap in Italy". International Journal of Manpower, 39: 710-730, 2018.

C. Castagnetti, E. Rossi, and L.Trapani. "Testing for no factor structures: on the use of Hausman-type statistics". Economics Letters, 130:66–68, 2015.

C. Castagnetti, E. Rossi, and L.Trapani. "Inference on factor structures in heterogeneous panels". Journal of Econometrics, 184:145–157, 2015. 

A. Bottasso, C. Castagnetti, and M. Conti. "R&D, innovation and knowledge spillovers: an empirical reappraisal based on cross sectional dependence". Journal of Applied Econometrics, 30: 350-352, 2015.

C. Castagnetti and E. Rossi. "Euro corporate bond risk factors". Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28:372–391, 2013. 

A. Bottasso, C. Castagnetti, and M. Conti. "And Yet they Co-Move! Public Capital and Productivity in OECD". Journal of Policy Modeling, 35: 713-729, 2013.

C. Castagnetti and L. Rosti. "Gender stereotyping and wage discrimination among Italian graduates". Gender & Society, 27: 630-658, 2013.

C. Castagnetti, S. Dal Bianco, and L. Rosti. "Shortening university career fades the signal away. Evidence from Italy". Applied Economics Research Bulletin, Berkeley Journal, forthcoming.

C. Castagnetti and L. Rosti. "Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment". Small Business Economics, 36: 223-234, 2011.

C. Castagnetti and L. Rosti. "Effort allocation in tournaments: the effect of gender on academic performance in Italian universities". Economics of Education Review, 28: 357-369, 2009.

C. Castagnetti, F. Chelli, and L. Rosti. "Educational Performance as Signalling Device: Evidence from Italy". Economics Bulletin, 9: 1-7, 2005.

C. Castagnetti. "Estimating the Risk Premium of Swap Spreads. Two Econometric GARCH-based Techniques". Applied Financial Economics, 14: 93-104, 2004.

Articles in books

C. Castagnetti and L. Rosti. "The gender gap in academic achievements of Italian graduates" , in Davies S. A. (ed.) Gender Gap: Causes, Experiences and Effects” Nova Science Publishers, Inc., NY, 2010 

Conference proceedings

C. Castagnetti, M.L. Giorgetti ,and M.L. Mancusi. "Gender and Innovation" , in Quality Research and Innovation through Equality, Gender Summit Europe 4, Abstract Compendium, 2014

Working papers

The COVID-19 pandemic: A threat to higher education? (with M.Bonaccolto-Toepfer), Discussion Papers 117, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics. 

Assessing Changes in Wage Gaps: A New Approach, (with L. Rosti and M. Toepfer), DEM Working Paper Series, 170 (03-19) 2019.

The Convergence of the Gender Pay Gap - An Alternative Estimation Approach, (with L.Rosti and M. Toepfer). Hohenheim Discussion papers in Business, Economics and Social Science, Universitaet Hohenheim.

Differenziali retributivi tra laureati e laureate (con L. Rosti) (Ingenere 2010).

Work in progress

A Simple Procedure For Decomposing Changes in Wage Distributions Using Quantile Regression (with M.Bonaccolto-Toepfer)

A multifactor model for credit spread changes.